Vincent Ialenti

Vincent Ialenti is a former U.S. Department of Energy official on the research faculty in Cal Poly Humboldt’s Department of Environmental Studies. He holds a PhD in anthropology from Cornell University and is the author of “Deep Time Reckoning” (MIT Press, 2020).


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DATE POSTED
April 30, 2026
Essay Future of Democracy
What America Owes The Nuclear Future
In the Nevada underground, civilization’s longest promise remains unkept.
DATE POSTED
April 5, 2022
Feature Philosophy & Culture
Keeping Time Into The Great Beyond
The 10,000-year clock is neither a ‘frightening’ ‘distraction,’ as its critics scorn, nor the ‘admirable objective’ its fans c...